Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [vb pp] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Eighties ended with Mrs Thatcher being forced to concede increased pensions of £40 a week for widows of servicemen killed in the second world war . |
| 2 | All was in vain ; the poor law functions of the Boards of Guardians were transferred to the County Council , and on March 29th 1930 the Board of Guardians met for the last time . |
| 3 | However , the large number of castles erected in the eleventh and twelfth centuries ( Fig. 12 ) and the hundreds of new monasteries founded during the same period also became the administrative centres of their estates , even if only for brief periods . |
| 4 | By 1928 some of the Party was prepared for the radical change of tactics authorized by the Sixth Comintern Congress . |
| 5 | In addition , can a set of precepts developed in the fifth century BC still retain sufficient vitality and relevance to regulate the practice of medical wonders at the end of the twentieth century AD ? |
| 6 | Not for many years has the complacency of the legal profession about the state of our legal system been so severely jolted as by the series of lectures delivered in the last fortnight by Sir Leslie Scarman , a distinguished Lord Justice of Appeal . |
| 7 | A survey by Jordans has found that the number of companies created in the first half of this year was 3.1% lower than the same period last year . |
| 8 | By Article V of the Convention , the sultan promised to negotiate with the Serbs on their demands for freedom of worship ; the right to establish their own schools and printing presses ; the return of areas won during the first revolt and forcibly returned to Turkish rule in 1813 ; the right of Serbian merchants to trade freely throughout the Ottoman empire ; a prohibition on any new Turkish settlement outside the major towns ; and an increase in the powers of Serbian government . |
| 9 | ( There are extremely instructive comparisons to be made between the films that make up Manvell 's ‘ Miscellany ’ and the ‘ pantheon ’ of directors listed in the first , 1962 , issue of Movie — the changes are an eloquently stark illustration of the massive reorientation of British film culture . ) |
| 10 | That was the beginning of a series of small books of prayers spread over the next fifty years , which were prayed first and then made available for others who felt the same spiritual need as myself . |
| 11 | East of Manningtree on the Stour estuary , this village possesses a fine range of maltings built in the nineteenth century . |
| 12 | The campaign to maximise the impact of the opposition parties ' votes in terms of seats won in the next election should begin now . |
| 13 | After studying the report , which reiterated the multitude of reservations expressed over the last few months and went on to accuse architect Dominique Perrault of having sacrificed functionalism for the sake of aesthetics , President Mitterrand accepted Perrault 's design , making only the most cosmetic of changes to appease the powerful lobby against the building . |
| 14 | From a twentieth century perspective it is often difficult to admire either the management of plot and catastrophe or the sentiments of plays written in the mid-eighteenth century . |
| 15 | I 've just sent a cable to the club : list of delegates expected for the next week 's visit — does that sound okay ? |
| 16 | All manner of gatecrashers followed for the next twenty years . |
| 17 | Inglis ( 1965 ) summarised data which showed that among individuals with memory defects only the number of items recalled from the second ear differed from the number recalled by normal control subjects , whereas recall from the initial ear was similar for both groups . |
| 18 | The level of orders received in the first quarter worsened compared with a year earlier , but turnover in the first quarter was up to the high levels of the year-ago quarter . |
| 19 | The list of transitions produced by the first program is sorted ( numerically , by the first node number ) , and the node numbers are converted into edge numbers , by a simple nawk ( Aho et al , 1988 ) program . |
| 20 | Evidence suggests that after an initial second-century surge of activity in Normangate Field , the number of kilns declined in the third and fourth , as manufacture gave way to other activities and moved further afield to more convenient locations . |
| 21 | So too in memory research ; if an animal can not be shown to have learned except by changing its behaviour and this change in behaviour can only be induced by some form of stress or constraint , then the changes in biochemistry that one finds in relation to the learning must include the changes in relation to the stress — including all the types of neuromodulators discussed in the last chapter . |
| 22 | The ban on commercial whaling is to remain in force for another year , as a result of decisions taken at the 44th annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission ( IWC ) held in Glasgow , Scotland , on June 29-July 3 . |
| 23 | Other ingredients in the exhibition include a series of reworked pictures decorated with dead flowers , a group of vitrines containing small tableaux which correspond to the imagery of his paintings , and a survey of watercolours created during the last ten years and encompassing the familiar iconography of Valhallas and palettes with wings . |
| 24 | =23 , p=0.071 , with the number of accidents reported over the last five years . |
| 25 | E. D. Vinogradoff has shown how local agrarian social and economic conditions shaped the collective political behaviour of peasants elected to the Fourth State Duma . |
| 26 | Elsewhere in the town the number of burglaries remains high but there have also been a large number of arrests made in the last seven days . |
| 27 | Only 77 per cent of children enrolled in the first grade ( Standard Sub-A- SSA ) in 1985 survived into the second year ( Standard Sub-B — SSB ) , little better than the 74 per cent of 1966 . |
| 28 | This is a study of children born in the second week of April , 1970 . |
| 29 | Only within the last 20 to 25 years has there even been an identifiable cohort of ageing disabled adults ; first , life expectancy for many types of impairments prior to this was low ; second , people who became disabled as a result of injuries received during the Second World War are now entering older age ; third , many children and young adults disabled as a result of the polio epidemics of the late 1940s and early 1950s are now in their 50s or older . |
| 30 | This is the study of papers written in the fifteenth century or something |